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Old 12-29-2010, 03:13 PM
lkchris lkchris is offline
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Originally Posted by M.B.DOC View Post
Cars with M272 engines are known to possibly have that defective balance shaft.
Make that the early ones, i.e. 2005-2006.

A 2008 is likely fine and this is a great car. It doesn't hold a candle to the Bluetec diesel, of course.

Running assembly line changes were made and the DTB covering this problem lists the engine serial numbers likely involved.
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